Students demand ‘never again’ as national walkout comes to Capitol Hill

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — “Hey, hey, ho, ho. The NRA has got to go,” several thousand students chanted loudly in front of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday demanding Congress pass gun control legislation.

Students from the Washington, D.C., area joined in the #ENOUGH! National School Walkout — a movement ignited after 17 students were murdered in the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting exactly one month ago.

Students held signs that read “Never again,” “Protect us, not guns” and “How many more?” on the Capitol’s West Front lawn.

“My message would be to please make a law to keep students or anyone that is mentally ill, from having a gun,” 13-year-old Amara Hill told ABC News.

“To start, we will not sit in classrooms with armed teachers,” said Matt Post, a 12th-grader and student board president of Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools. “We refuse to learn in fear. We reject turning our schools into prisons.”

Trump administration proposals call for trained teachers to be armed to help prevent another shooting like Parkland.